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... Caribbean to be more accountable for their African populations . 1 At this time , the colony at Berbice started keeping a " book of minutes " recording the com- plaints of slaves , which were then published by Parliament and distributed ...
... Caribbean . Sugar cultivation could only be profitable if outfitted by cheap labor in the form of slaves . And so during the middle 1640s , the Portuguese who had controlled A the transatlantic trade for a hundred years , and. 16 Chapter 1.
... Caribbean and exported slaves to its North American colonies , dealing principally in sugar . In the 1780s , the transatlantic trade reached its peak , with the British lead- ing the way and , ironically enough , it was at this exact ...
... Caribbean and the Americas died on slave ships during the middle passage , which is one of the most horrible and resonating memories of slavery . Besides its unparalleled magnitude , the other particularly shameful aspect of the trade ...
... Caribbean histories and travels also abounded , from William Beck- ford's early Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica ( 1790 J to the celebrated gothic writer Matthew Gregory Lewis , with his Journal of a West India Proprietor ...
Contents
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Hazards and Horrors in the Slave Colonies | 45 |
Distant Diseases Yellow Fever in Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 47 |
Intimacy as Imitation Monkeys in Blakes Engravings for Stedmans Narrative | 66 |
Fascination and Fear in Africa | 121 |
African Embraces Voodoo and Possession in Keatss Lamia | 123 |
Mapping Interiors African Cartography Nile Poetry and Percy Bysshe Shelleys The Witch of Atlas | 142 |
Proximitys Monsters Ethnography and AntiSlavery Law in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein | 171 |
Intimate Distance African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworths Poetry and The History of Mary Prince | 194 |
Afterword | 223 |
Notes | 225 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 295 |
Facing Slavery in Britain | 169 |